sanguinity

Example Sentences

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Preoccupied as he may be regarding his time left on Earth, Brock characteristically pivots to a kind of hesitant sanguinity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

His laissez-faire sanguinity and her steely determination are convincing and compelling.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

“Drenched in the sanguinity of chaos,” Osiris celebrates the “brilliant pyre of destruction” before returning to Anacostia in spectral form as the “River Man” discovered by his grandson Dash.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

Kerouac saw sadness in Frank’s collection, but what is most notable about the staid, unburnished faces now is their comparative sanguinity.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 11, 2019

It is in stanzas, every one an octosyllabic triplet, which you will think odd, and I have not sanguinity enough to defend.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir